Twenty-four hours later

Well....it's been kind of a hard twenty-four hours for Ivy. She's having trouble sleeping, her pain medication makes her crazy itchy, and she still doesn't get to drink as much water as she'd like. She's thrown up a few times (which is why they are limiting her liquid intake), so they have put her on some reflux medicine and anti nausea medicine and she hasn't thrown up since about 8:30 this morning. Hopefully she'll be allowed to eat something very soon.


She had her arterial line removed around 1 pm and we're hoping to have a few more lines removed before the day is out. She is quite grumpy and opinionated and is quick to tell people when she doesn't like them (which is often). She's thrown a couple of tantrums over being thirsty and even tried to rip a few chest tubes out! She also really wants to sleep on her stomach, but can't for obvious reasons. She's feeling kind of picked on, I guess.

The good news is that she has been able to sit up a little bit (she even did a sort of dance while watching happy feet), and after she gets a few more lines out she'll hopefully be able to move around more, and maybe I could hold her, because she really would love that (and so would I!).

 Please keep not as sweet as normal Ivy in your prayers today. She could really use some good sleep and relief from the itching (Benadryl just isn't cutting it!).